You treat it as 10^4 (the small number is the number of zeros. Therefore the answer is 10000. Or of you meant 10^-4. Its the same concept, just reversed. So the answer in this case is 0.0004.

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Sales tax is a function of the price of an item. The amount of sales tax is 0.08 times the price of the item. Use h to represent

Margaret [11]

Option C:

h(x) = 0.08x

Solution:

Given data:

Sales tax is a function of the price of an item.

Let h be the function.

Take x be the price of an item.

Amount of sales tax = 0.08 times price of the item

= 0.08 × x

Amount of sales tax = 0.08x

⇒ h(x) = 0.08x

Hence the function is h(x) = 0.08x.

Option C is the correct answer.

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